noun
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A perceived threat or danger.
definition
The act of threatening.
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An annoying and bothersome person or thing.
Examples of menace in a Sentence
He's a menace to everything.
The menace in his voice made her want to leave even more.
Texcoco is now connected with the new drainage works of the capital and is no longer a menace to its population through inundations and pestilential fevers.
But if first principles are disregarded, and a follower of hounds believes in the system "it doesn't matter how you ride so long as you stick on," he will not only always be a "sight" but a menace in the hunting field.
In the case of wealthy bishoprics or abbacies this involved a serious menace to the secular authority.
His letter shows that he considered the rise of Assyria a menace to himself.
Moshesh continued to menace the Free State border.
No real attempt has ever been made to observe the decree, and indeed observance has been impossible seeing the dangers which never cease to menace the empire.
The French element he thought a menace to Canada's future, and partly for this reason he desired all the provinces to unite so that the British element should be dominant.
Control over many of the outlying districts was lost, and the elements of disorder on the British frontier were a standing menace to the peace of the country.
Napoleon was determined to destroy the oligarchical government, and seized the pretext that Venice was hostile to him and a menace to his line of retreat while engaged in his Austrian campaign of 1797.
Whether as a result of his fear of the rivalry of Jem, or of his personal character, Bayezid showed little of the aggressive spirit of his warlike predecessors; and Machiavelli said that another such sultan would cause Turkey to cease being a menace to Europe.
Like ' Menace ' it has undeniable style and flair which somewhat belies the sledgehammer subtle social agenda.
It was traditional in form but beneath the surface there lurked a quiet menace - as exemplified in poems such as The Horses.
He was soon regarded once more as a menace to the peace of Germany, and of the three alternatives presented to him by the emperor in 1188 he rejected the idea of making a formal renunciation of his claim, or of participating in the crusade, and chose exile, going again to England in 1189.
Finally, a band of loo marched from Basel to Avignon to the court of Pope Clement VI., who, in spite of the sympathy shown them by several of his cardinals, condemned the sect as constituting a menace to the priesthood.
The interest of the place centres in the castle dominating the town, which was built in the 11th century by William of Argues; his nephew, William the Conqueror, regarding it as a menace to his own power, besieged and occupied it.
The Bill will also crackdown on the menace of uninsured driving.
The nearness of China to Australia has always appeared to the Australian democracy as a menace to the integrity of the white settlements; and at the many conferences of representatives from the various states, called to discuss matters of general concern, the Chinese question has always held a prominent place, but the absence of any federal authority had made common action difficult.
You have these army brats taking on an alien menace and it is all out survival for the human species.
The Phantom Menace introduces Anakin Skywalker as a young slave boy, Obi-Wan Kenobi as a Jedi apprentice, and the introduction of the evil Darth Maul and the forces of darkness known as the Sith.
When the powers moved against the Egyptians in 1840, Beirut had recently been occupied in force by Ibrahim as a menace to the Druses; but he was easily driven out after a destructive bombardment by Admiral Sir Robert Stopford (1768-1847).
The establishment of Charles's brother, Philip the Bold, in the duchy of Burgundy, though it constituted in the event a serious menace to the monarchy, put an end to the king of Navarre's ambitions in that direction.
To the south of the city, a Russian bridgehead of equal menace had spewed forth hundreds of tanks on November 20.
Marriage A Menace Apparently for a person to get married is like burning the candle at both ends.
To tackle the menace, ministers promised a crackdown on poor hygiene with hospitals ranked in a league table of cleanliness.
The masculine image of contemporary queer fashion thus embodies the eroticism of maleness without the violent menace of heterosexual machismo.
Here the gathered nobles allied themselves to fight the growing menace of the pagan Danes, the Vikings.
It tells the story of a competition between two shopkeepers and neighbors, until the fascist menace makes them become friends.
Churchill set up a Battle of the Atlantic committee to look for answers to the U-boat menace.
They too released the animals once they became rebellious, adding to the menace.
Duped and intimidated by the old rogue and the menace of Josie.
Like the Phantom Menace DVD before it, the Clones DVD features menus themed around locations found in the film.
It was, however, expected that the chiefs of the Left, upon attaining office, would turn resolutely towards Prussia in search of a guarantee against the Clerical menace embodied in the rgime of Marshal Macmahon.
Even had this circumstance been known at the time, it could scarcely have mitigated the intense resentment of the whole Italian nation at an event which was considered tantamount not only to the destruction of Italian aspirations to Tunisia, but to the ruin of the interests of the numerous Italian colony and to a constant menace against the security of the Sicilian and south Italian coasts.
On the occasion of the incident raised by Goblet with regard to Massawa, Bismarck made it clear to France that, in case of complications, Italy would not stand alone; and when in February I 888 a strong French fleet appeared to menace the Italian coast, the British Mediterranean squadron demonstrated its readiness to support Italian naval dispositions.
A singular menace to agriculture in Nevada was the plague in1907-1908of Carson field mice.
Hitherto he had been wont to pose as a disbeliever in the German menace, and an advocate of reductions in British armaments.
The central idea of his teaching was that naval supremacy is the condition precedent of all vigorous military offensive across the seas, and, conversely, that no vigorous military offensive can be undertaken across the seas until the naval force of the enemy has been accounted for - either destroyed or defeated and compelled to withdraw to the shelter of its own ports, or at least driven from the seas by the menace of a force it dare not encounter in the open.
The persistent attempt of the South African Republic to assert its full independence, culminating in a formal denial of British suzerainty, made it additionally incumbent on Great Britain to carry its point as to the Uitlander grievances, while, from Mr Kruger's point of view, the admission of the Uitlanders to real political rights meant the doom of his oligarchical regime, and appeared in the light of a direct menace to Boer supremacy.
This wind has been a constant menace to shipping at anchor; the new breakwater on the Monarch Shoal was designed to resist its ravages.
The pope and the representatives of the council made no serious effort to remedy the abuses suggested under these several captions; but the idea of the superiority of a council over the pope, and the right of those who felt aggrieved by papal decisions to appeal to a future council, remained a serious menace to the theory of papal absolutism.
And as the motive power of this formidable mechanism of force they could rely on the native suspiciousness of the Parisian populace, exaggerated now into madness by famine and the menace of foreign invasion.
Supposing that the Porte would yield to diplomatic pressure and menace so far as to make some reasonable concessions, he delivered his famous Moscow speech, in which he declared that if Europe would not secure a better position for the oppressed Sla y s he would act alone.
Its language now recalls that of Canute or Alfred, now anticipates that of our own day; on the one hand common right is to be done to all, as well poor as rich, without respect of persons; on the other, elections are to be free, and no man is by force, malice or menace, to disturb them.
The Russian government, which not unnaturally wished to avoid any appearance of acting under dictation, and was now in no anxiety for the Reval squadron, treated his presence as a menace.
Even heading through at slack water there is always a sense of menace !
Diesel spills on road surfaces are a menace to anyone on two wheels.
The other cast carried the show along comfortably with Oliver Darley bringing the necessary mixture of menace and suave sophistication to his role.
The question was softly uttered; it 's menace lay in the steel gray of her unflinching eyes.